Why Are the Giants So Bad Right Now?

Was it fools’ gold? All those K’s posted by the bullpen? All the home runs, the timely hits, the miracle plays in the field? Was Marx talking Giants baseball when he wrote “all that is solid melts into air”?

We knew the Giants were not that good. Now we’re hoping they’re not that bad.

How bad? Since June 8, they’ve lost 11 of 15 games. Worst record in the majors for the month.

Injuries, weak replacements and truckloads of bad luck figure into the slump in a major way. Worst of all, their timing, in a word, sucks. As a team, they seem disjointed, ill-at-ease, slow, and at times, clumsy. They play with no rhythm. They don’t play. They “grind” (to use manager Bruce Bochy’s favorite all-purpose word).